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5/19/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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05.19.2026 at 04:36pm
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National Security News:

1. In Beijing summit, Trump got what he wanted on Iran, and Xi got what he wanted on Taiwan
2. Notes from Central Taiwan: Stop calling it ‘unification’
3. Xi Jinping Is Now the World Leader He Wanted to Be, but It Has Come at a Cost
4. The Growing Gap Between SOF Missions and SOF Resources
5. An A2/AD Strategy for the Cognitive Domain
6. The school of hard NOCs gets tougher for JSOC
7. Arms Without Strings: What Buying Chinese Military Technology Really Means
8. Weaponizing Supply Chains: How Iran and China Drive Strategic Food Insecurity in Modern Conflict
9. The new Indo-Pacific security architecture: From hub-and-spoke to allied security web
10. ‘Going to change everything’: Special Forces joins Army’s next-gen C2 prototype experiments
11. Opinion | Ukraine Offers a Glimpse at the Future of War
12. Russia’s War Is Going Badly—on the Ground and in the Air
13. US soldiers learn to identify drones by sound
14. Five companies win DoD’s Drone Dominance small drone ‘Lethality Prize Challenge’
15. Ukraine is building a drone army that can defeat Russia
16. Army pushes Pacific overhaul with AI, long-range fires and new commands
17. The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam
18. The Not-So-Quiet American: Pope Leo Takes the Vatican Where Francis Could Not
19. Orban’s Fall and Europe’s Rise

Korean News:

1. Brunson, STRATCOM Discuss Stronger Nuclear Deterrence in Northeast Asia
2. When Refusal Doesn’t Matter: Operation Epic Fury and the Erosion of Host Nation Consent
3. Lee, Takaichi agree on energy cooperation at Japan-South Korea summit
4. Unification ministry defends white paper against criticism over ‘two-state’ language
5. PPP slams unification ministry’s reference to Koreas as ‘two-state relationship’
6. S. Korea enhances cyber command unit amid push for ‘soft-kill’ deterrence
7. No reports of MDL crossings by N. Korean troops this year amid border fortification: source
8. North Korea appears to test rocket engine, build satellite launch viewing area

About The Author

  • Dave Maxwell

    David Maxwell is a retired U.S. Army Special Forces Colonel who has spent more than 30 years in the Asia Pacific region (primarily Korea, Japan, and the Philippines) as a practitioner, specializing in Northeast Asian Security Affairs and irregular, unconventional, and political warfare. He is the Vice President of the Center for Asia Pacific Strategy. He commanded the Joint Special Operations Task Force Philippines during the war on terrorism and is the former J5 and Chief of Staff of the Special Operations Command Korea, and G3 of the US Army Special Operations Command. Following retirement, he was the Associate Director of the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. He is a member of the board of directors of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea and the OSS Society, on the board of advisers of Spirit of America, and is the Editor-at-Large of Small Wars Journal.

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